After she'd decided to go all in on her art career, having cut ties with her film-production background, Sam Shuter needed to find some way to make ends meet. "I was stuck behind a bar serving vodka cranberries to douchebags," she recalls of her not-so-glorious days as a part-time bartender in Toronto. Thankfully, it didn't last long: Today the 28-year-old Canadian is an on-the-rise artist whose large paintings — the majority of which have a male sartorial bent, and can be seen via her Instagram — command upward of $11,000 apiece. "It was all sort of mind-blowing," she says of the first time she realized people were willing to pay large sums of money for her work. "I had a huge self-discovery moment after that."